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Seems like another abysmal attendance in Portland tonight.

I hope Seth is just having fun trolling and shit because otherwise this is just weird at this point, like mental health - as in, stressed the fuck out and about to break down emotionally - type stuff.

He's 1 wink wink shooty promo away from going full HHH.

And this program has been going on since April? Goddamn. Will watch D-Bry's tag match as it got a good amount of time.

If KUSHIDA's deal isn't very long, I'd say he made the right decision. Once he goes back to Japan he'll be able to do whatever he wants tbh. Even if he doesn't return to New Japan, he's gonna get good money and big matches in any promotion in Japan.

I need monster gaijin Rusev working the Champion Carnival and the G-1 in 2020.

Strong BJ 6 man tag at Korakuen is pretty much a guarantee of a fun match, this one does not disappoint. Match also has the added condiment that is building up for Yuji defending the title against Nomura the young gawd and they do an awesome job making you want to watch that match ASAP. Hyodo's human wrecking ball gimmick is fun to watch and he showed some nice moves at the start against Kikuta. Kawami is used for what he does best - short spurts of beating the fuck out of someone - and Sekimoto is basically reduced to cheering for his guys and bumping for his opponents. You watch this to see if Okabayashi and Nomura can work their magic, and they sure as hell do. Some of those slaps were as vicious as expected. 12 minutes of fun stuff from the best division in puro.

Bryan being a part of the stupid fucking superplex no sell (because Seth has to do that fucking falcon arrow that means jackshit anyway because he's won 1 out of 200 matches with it) kinda pissed me off. And then Seth trying to "pop back" his shoulder by hitting it hard against the ring post, only for him to get caught in the LeBell Lock, and having to no sell it to rush to his W was sooo Seth Rollins

Tuned in to see what could Bryan do with Rollins and HOLY SHIT at the silence this big brawl is getting

Most exciting G-1 in a while, the additions of Cobb, KENTA, Moxley and Shingo are incredibly refreshing and will make a ton of days way more interesting that past years. White vs Naito and Okada vs Ibushi seems to be the de facto semis at Budokan. The Osaka shows look fucking stellar, Ishii vs Moxley at Korakuen is gonna be a blast and Yokohama will have the privilege of Ishii vs Shingo.

Woof. Also, RAW did an historically bad rating again, as expected considering they have NOTHING going right now and the NBA Finals had a huge game than ended up being a classic.

I hate that narrative because the fact is KENTA was already a shell of his former self well before he even signed to WWE. What he did after his 2012 return (from another ACL surgery), was a clear and steady step down from what he was doing before. To be honest, his knee injury at the end of his amazing 09' was the end of his peak as a in ring performer. If the New Japan setting, this new (steroid?) "diet" to bulk up and maybe even a change in style gives him a resurgence it would fucking awesome. But we can't put any blame on his tenure in WWE, he was what he was there.

I'm way more excited about Shingo in the G-1 than KENTA tbh. But it will be interesting to see if the steroid diet is gonna make KENTA more durable considering how brutal the G-1 is to wrestler's bodies. I wasn't a fan of heavyweight KENTA in NOAH but we'll see if having a chip on his shoulder and a bunch of fresh matchups in New Japan crate some sort of spark in him, hopefully we get his best version possible. You add Moxley to the mix and it's the most exciting G-1 in years.

I mean, Taker landed on his knees first, which is the safe thing to do and what he has always done. I'm not sure if it was Goldberg who didn't tuck his head or Taker just couldn't handle him and let Goldberg slip and land on his head.

After reading Dave's live tweeting of the Saudi show I feel he has become the Bill Simmons of wrestling.

holy shit

Murda Meltz

Eh, I didn't think it lead to anything and Mox's work on it was good/strong enough to me for it to mean something. I didn't feel Juice lost much by getting his leg hunted. It's a nitpick by me for sure, it's not like the match relied heavily on it or not having a satisfying payoff ruined the match or anything. It's just that if it had, it would've probably felt like a legit MOTYC to me. To be honest I'm just tired of leg work in general because it seems that in today's wrestling is impossible for any good attack on it to either be sold in a manner that makes me suspend disbelief or to have a payoff that feels earned. I mean the last time I felt it was done well was in a Daichi Hashimoto or a Takuya Nomura match (can't remember) were even though dude ended up no selling a bit, he showed that using the leg hurt like a motherfucker, it was something at least lol.

Kinda hard to have a better debut than that one for Moxley. I also didn't think it was "MOTYC" level but it was more than worth a watch. The leg work was one of the things I didn't like tbh, Mox did good stuff with it but it was rendered meaningless. Him working the eye brow and trying to bust Juice open was awesome though. Robinson is such a good babyface too, only bump I didn't like was the cannonball on the table, the rest added a lot to the match imo. Also thought Tana vs White was better, best White match since the one had against Juice in the US last year.

Aw man this is horrible. RIP to Atsushi.

Well, Ric's been very clear he's never gonna change no matter what anybody tells him. He's been saying for years he doesn't care about being Richard Fliehr, he loves being the Nature Boy too much. Sacrificing longevity for happiness (the way he sees happiness) is a perfect way of putting it.

98k for a promotion based on youtube is impressive as hell. Being 5 months aways from the TNT debut meant that DoN could've been a disaster and still wouldn't have meant much in the gran scheme of things, at the end of the day no matter how bad it could've been the buzz leading up to their TV show was going to be a huge anyway. But DoN was home run in every way imaginable so the promotion and anticipation leading up to TNT in October is gonna be something else. This is great.

Of all the things people bitch about Dave, him talking about WWE's creative process being a clusterfuck that leaves talent with very little (or non) wiggle room to actually be creative wasn't one of them. Unless we are talking about weird people on Twitter that have strange fixation with anything Meltzer says or reports. I think Punk's podcast was the thing that made every rational fan realize that things were indeed as fucked up as perceived by most and reported by guys like Dave.

Moxley sounds like Punk's mindset right before MITB 2011. Completely burned out and tired of being trapped creatively and constantly having to fight for every single thing. Mox was able to leave just in time before his love for wrestling was gone though, which those 2 and a half extra years basically did for Punk. It will never not be interesting hearing this backstage stories that confirm every perception we have about Vince and WWE's "creative" process. HHH was very smart in using Regal as his J.R and poaching all this talent from indys and overseas. Timing was perfect as there was no other company that could stop them from taking these wrestlers from them, so he basically got anyone he wanted. But a lot of those deals will be coming to an end in the next 1-3 years so it will be VERY interesting to see how many they can actually keep before even having them on the main roster with a sustained run. They have so many people right now that it's impossible to have them all happy even they did everything perfectly - and we know that's not a realistic scenario anyway -, specially when there's an option like AEW that has good money and it's fanbase is made of the people that connected with those wrestlers the most.

100k would be massive, 200k is otherworldly to the point it doesn't seem realistic at all. That surprised me a lot because I remember Dave saying it did 20k on the internet and if TV buys did better than that he would know or be told about it. 55k sounds pretty damn good or a show like All In.